"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
H. G. Wells"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
H. G. Wells"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
H. G. Wells"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
H. G. Wells"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
H. G. Wells"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."
H. G. Wells"Cynicism is humor in ill health."
H. G. Wells"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
H. G. Wells"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
H. G. Wells"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."
H. G. Wells"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
H. G. Wells"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
H. G. Wells"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought."
H. G. Wells"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."
H. G. Wells"If we don't end war, war will end us."
H. G. Wells"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
H. G. Wells"Advertising is legalized lying."
H. G. Wells"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
H. G. Wells"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
H. G. Wells